The United Nations headquarters is expanding its office space in Midtown to now span more than 425,000 square feet. Check out ...

The United Nations’ vast system has tackled everything from delivering life-saving humanitarian aid to providing crucial ...

Four generations after its founding, the United Nations is facing major funding cuts and renewed questions about its future.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United ...

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On 19 June 2015, the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/69/293) proclaimed 19 June of each year the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, in order to raise ...

The United Nations and Darfur. For more than a year, from early 2003 until mid-2004, while the conflict in Darfur was escalating, the U.N. Security Council’s priority in Sudan was negotiations ...

Remember the Fallen: Serving the cause of peace in a violent world is a dangerous occupation. Since the founding of the United Nations, hundreds of brave men and women have lost their lives in its ...